[Xoom General] JimmyHACK:
Each day i have the XOOM my disappointment grows a little. (not looking for fights, just giving my opinion)

Some of my disappointments are:

1) No USB charging (Yes, I am kicking myself for not noticing this info leaked a coupe days early when the manual came out online) But just for a standard design consistency Motorola really makes no sense using yet another plug. It feels like a pointless attempt to tack on a new car charger or other accessories.

2) The power button. Just not getting used to it at all, and when the tablet is sitting flat on a table and i want to power it up it just gets very annoying having to stop and lift it to unlock. I know the button placement "kinda" (being nice) works naturally if your holding it with two hands at the time you want to unlock, but it's just another example of no design consistency across products.

***These first two are mainly gripes that just don't understand how a company of engineers make some inherently bad design choices. I could live with these minor annoyance probably even though they just keep sticking their ugly head up. The following two points are where I may have to use my return policy***

3)Tegra 2 can't play **** for HD video. I guess this was public information, but it's pretty sad that this chip that will be powering many devices this year can't handle HD video worth a damn. So kind of kicking myself for not catching this prior. Really though, dual core and their new GPU and they can't handle some standard video profiles that are years old, just sad. I don't care flash was delayed, but it makes me wonder if this hardware accelerated flash is even worth waiting for over the last when the hardware cant handle these basic things.

4)Sluggish...... Clearly Honeycomb wasn't ready yet, at least for dual core tablets. No doubt just rushing to get a product out to market before the next round of competition. Not trying to flame anything here, but my iPad which I was never fond of just cause iOS is last years tech 1ghz and smoother 10 out of 10 times over this XOOM tablet with Honeycomb which is extra insulting when you add in it's 256 ram. From lagging in keyboard input, other lags , not crisp smooth animations, and other ridiculous slow stuttering behavior such as MP3 playback hiccuping cause you want to load up something as simple as a book to read. Gmail force closing gets old too, but that's a simple app update (I only have honeycomb apps and stock apps, so don't try the crap line "well they prolly have tons of crap not for the device installed"). It just wasn't ready and feel poorly rush out to sell. I know an update will come along to clean this up (looking forward to slow rollouts from carriers yay haha) hopefully something like froyo was for phones. Just still really saddening with its specs it performs horribly.

So that's where I am at. You can use the whole "early adopter" line if you want to try and make yourself feel better, but that's really stretching. I see the great potential in Android on tablets and am very excited for it. Things such as lack of apps I can live with since we know apps will come. No early sdk time just comes from the whole rushing this product anyway :) I am happy I have another 10 days or so to decide if I should just return it and wait for the other manufacturers tablets which will obviously have minor smarter hardware design and by that point maybe honeycomb will be updated once or twice to make performance on par with single core devices. Even with that I am still not very optimistic with the whole Tegra 2 and HD video though. Just a lot of money on a device that isn't delivering on the most basic of expectations.... yet.